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Evolution of OS Software
In the early computers, there were no operating systems.
By in the early 1960s, when the commercial computer merchants started supplying the extensive apparatus for reformation of the development, execution of jobs, and scheduling on batch processing systems.
With the advancement of the time we have come across a number of operating system software. Starting from the DOS, a lot much operating system software has got developed through out the ages like the UNIX, Oracle etc depending on the requirement.
The most commonly-used modern desktop and laptop operating system is the Microsoft Windows.
Though more powerful servers make the use of FreeBSD, Linux, and other Unix-like systems a lot.
Though, these types of operating systems, particularly Mac OS X, are also installed on the personal computers.
Types of Operating System Software:
Single User Systems: This provides a base for only single user at a particular time. These types of operating system software are more popularly with Desk Tops.
Multi User Systems: These provide a regulated admittance for a certain number of users by keeping up a database of identified users.
Names of different operating system software that is available:
1. AEGIS
2. AMIGA-OS-1.2
3. AMIGA-OS-1.3
4. AMIGA-OS-2.0
5. AMIGA-OS-2.1
6. AMIGA-OS-3.0
7. AMIGA-OS-3.1
8. AMIGA-OS-3.5
9. AMIGA-OS-3.9
10. APOLLO
11. AIX/370
12. AIX-PS/2
13. BEOS-4.5.2
14. BEOS-5.0
15. BS-2000
16. CEDAR
17. CGW
18. CHORUS
19. CHRYSALIS
20. CMOS
21. CMS
22. COS
23. CPIX
24. CTOS
25. CTSS
26. DCN
27. DDNOS
28. DOMAIN
29. DOS
30. EDX
31. ELF
32. EMBOS
33. EMMOS
34. EPOS
35. FOONEX
36. FREEBSD
37. FORTH
38. FUZZ
39. GCOS
40. GPOS
41. HDOS
42. IMAGEN
43. INSTANT-INTERNET
44. INTERCOM
45. IMPRESS
46. INTERLISP
47. IOS
48. IRIX
49. ISI-6802
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50. ITS
51. KOSOS
52. LINUX
53. LINUX-1.0
54. LINUX-1.2
55. LINUX-2.0
56. LINUX-2.2
57. LINUX-2.4
58. LISP
59. LISPM
60. LOCUS
61. MACOS
62. MINOS
63. MOS
64. MPE5
65. MPE/V
66. MPE/IX
67. MSDOS
68. MULTICS
69. MUSIC
70. MUSIC/SP
71. MVS
72. MVS/SP
73. NETBSD-1.0
74. NETBSD-1.1
75. NETBSD-1.2
76. NETBSD-1.3
77. NETWARE-3
78. NETWARE-3.11
79. NETWARE-4.0
80. NETWARE-4.1
81. NETWARE-5.0
82. NEXUS
83. NMS
84. NONSTOP
85. NOS-2
86. NTOS
87. OPENBSD
88. OPENVMS
89. OS/DDP
90. OS/2
91. OS4
92. OS86
93. OSX
94. PCDOS
95. PERQ/OS
96. PLI
97. PSDOS/MIT
98. PSOS
99. PRIMOS
100. RISC-OS
101. RISC-OS-3.10
102. RISC-OS-3.50
103. RISC-OS-3.60
104. RISC-OS-3.70
105. RISC-OS-4.00
106. RMX/RDOS
107. ROS
108. RSX11M
109. RTE-A
110. SATOPS
111. SINIX
112. SCO-OPEN-DESKTOP-1.0
113. SCO-OPEN-DESKTOP-1.1
114. SCO-OPEN-DESKTOP-2.0
115. SCO-OPEN-DESKTOP-3.0
116. SCO-OPEN-DESKTOP-LITE-3.0
117. SCO-OPEN-SERVER-3.0
118. SCO-UNIX-3.2.0
119. SCO-UNIX-3.2V2.0
120. SCO-UNIX-3.2V2.1
121. SCO-UNIX-3.2V4.0
122. SCO-UNIX-3.2V4.1
123. SCO-UNIX-3.2V4.2
124. SCO-XENIX-386-2.3.2
125. SCO-XENIX-386-2.3.3
126. SCO-XENIX-386-2.3.4
127. SCS
128. SIMP
129. SUN
130. SUN-OS-3.5
131. SUN-OS-4.0
132. SWIFT
133. TAC
134. TANDEM
135. TENEX
136. THE-MAJOR-BBS
137. TOPS10
138. TOPS20
139. TOS
140. TP3010
141. TRSDOS
142. ULTRIX
143. UNIX
144. UNIX-BSD
145. UNIX-V1AT
146. UNIX-V
147. UNIX-V.1
148. UNIX-V.2
149. UNIX-V.3
150. UNIX-PC
151. UNKNOWN
152. UT2D
153. V
154. VM
155. VM/370
156. VM/CMS
157. VM/SP
158. VMS
159. VMS/EUNICE
160. VRTX
161. WAITS
162. WANG
163. WIN32
164. WINDOWS-95
165. WINDOWS-95-OSR1
166. WINDOWS-95-OSR2
167. WINDOWS-98
168. WINDOWS-CE
169. WINDOWS-NT
170. WINDOWS-NT-2
171. WINDOWS-NT-3
172. WINDOWS-NT-3.5
173. WINDOWS-NT-3.51
174. WINDOWS-NT-4
175. WINDOWS-NT-5
176. WINDOWS VISTA
177. WORLDGROUP
178. WYSE-WYXWARE
179. X11R3
180. XDE
181. XENIX
- All these are the Official System Names and they are kept in this table as they come into sight in the System HINFO records, the NIC Host Table and Domain Name
- Today, most current operating systems include Graphical User Interfaces.
- A small number of older operating systems strongly incorporated the GUI into the kernel, for example, in the new implementations of Mac OS and Microsoft Windows, the graphical subsystem was truly a part of the kernel system.
- More up to date operating systems are modular, straightening out the graphical subsystem from the kernel system (as it is now found with the Mac OS X and the Linux).
- The most common and widely used operating system software is the Microsoft Windows. The Microsoft Windows family of operating systems started as an attachment to the elder MS-DOS settings for the IBM PC.
- Current versions are based on the later discovered Windows NT core which was at first intended for OS/2 and taken on loan from VMS.
- Windows are compatible on x86, x86-64 and Itanium processors.
- Previous versions are also compatible on the MIPS, Fairchild (later Intergraph) Clipper, and DEC Alpha and PowerPC architectures (a number of the work was completed to link it with the SPARC architecture).
- As of September 2007, Microsoft Windows has got a large amount of the desktop market share through out the world.
- Windows is now also being incorporated on servers, database servers and supporting appliances such as web servers.
- In current years, Microsoft has spent a he amount of money in marketing and research & development to exhibit that Windows is able to run any enterprise application.
- This has resulted in dependable price to performance records and considerable approval in the enterprise marketplace.
- The chiefly used edition of the Microsoft Windows folks is the Windows XP, which was released on 25th October 2001.
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